be within a whisker of (something)

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be within a whisker of (something)

To be very close to getting, achieving, or experiencing something. She was within a whisker of the gold medal, but her leg cramped in the last few meters.Hundreds of people were within a whisker of death when their apartment building caught on fire in the middle of the night.

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